IRVINE, Calif. -- Newport Corporation, a worldwide leader in photonics and instrumentation, today introduced a new family of polarization control and measurement instruments designed for use in a wide variety of markets including research, aerospace and defense, telecommunications and data communications. These latest additions to Newport’s instrumentation solutions include a polarization extinction meter, polarization scrambler, the degree of polarization meter, a polarization stabilizer, a polarization multimeter, multifunction polarization controller, and a polarization synthesizer and analyzer.

“By introducing this new product line, Newport now offers a complete, state-of-the-art portfolio of instrumentation solutions to customers who manage and measure light,” said Ron Hartmayer, Director of Marketing for Photonics at Newport Corporation. “These products help round out a complete instrumentation line, as it relates to controlling, stabilizing, measuring and analyzing polarization in fiberoptic-based applications.”

The 2590P Polarization Synthesizer and Analyzer represents the flagship product of the new portfolio, enabling the user to generate and maintain any desired state of polarization (SOP), regardless of the input SOP. The generated SOP and corresponding Poincaré sphere are displayed on a monitor via PC interface. The instrument has multiple operation modes: deterministic SOP trace generation, polarization analysis and polarization scrambling, and is available for 1260-1360nm and 1500-1600nm wavelength ranges.

The 2570P Series Polarization Multimeter operates in the 1260-1650nm wavelength range and provides four measurement modes -- polarization dependent loss (PDL), insertion loss (IL), optical power (Po) and degree of polarization (DOP) – all in less than 0.2 seconds – and is accurate for both low and high PDL and SOP values.

Newport’s 2580P Series Multifunction Polarization Controller features an ultra low insertion loss of 0.005 dB over the 1260-1620 nm wavelength range. Four operational modes are available: variable speed polarization scrambling at 10 kHz rates, manual polarization adjustment, polarization function generation delivering sine, saw square and random functions, and externally triggered scrambling up to 10 kHz rates.

Newport Corp.